Blarney Castle landed in fifth place on the list with a score of 7.5, just behind Charles Bridge, a medieval stone arch bridge in Prague, and just ahead of Fushimi Inari-taisha, a shrine in Kyoto ...

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Just five miles from Cork, Blarney Castle was built around 1446 by Dermot McCarthy, chieftain of the Muskerry clan, and today ranks among Ireland's finest examples of medieval defensive architecture.

If every myth and legend about Blarney Castle and the Blarney Stone were true, it would be the most significant rock in history. Here are the facts of this favorite Irish tourist attraction.